The BBC Radio 2 and 6Music controller, Lesley Douglas, tops this year's list of radio executives in the MediaGuardian 100.

Her place at number 19 in the overall list reflects the fact that after five years in charge of Radio 2, her network continues to bring in formidably large audience figures - a record 13.6 million listeners tuning in every week and its biggest-ever audience share of 15.7%. Radio 2 is the most popular station in the UK and accounts for around one in seven of all radio listening hours.

Douglas also looks after Radio 2's digital sibling, BBC 6Music, and last year took on the role of coordinating all of the corporation's pop music output across radio, TV and online.

Five places behind Douglas at 24 is the Radio 4 controller, Mark Damazer, who has quietly overseen various improvements to the hugely influential network he has been running since 2004. His place is perhaps also due in no small measure to the fact that Radio 4 won station of the year at this year's Sony Radio Academy Awards.

One of Damazer's boldest moves was the recruitment of BBC economics editor Evan Davis for the Today programme presenting roster, also earning 46-year-old Davis a debut place on the MediaGuardian 100 at number 69.

Davis is followed in the radio top 10 by Richard Park, the forthright acting chief executive of Global Radio and a familiar face to millions of TV viewers as the "headmaster" on BBC1's Fame Academy.

At number five in top 10 (89 overall) is the GCap Media chairman Charles Allen, the comeback kid. The former ITV chief executive returned to the media sector last year as chairman of Global Radio, which has just bought GCap, with the merged company becoming the biggest player in UK commercial radio.

The Global/GCap combine accounts for more than 40% of the commercial radio listening, with stations including Capital, Classic FM, Heart, Galaxy and LBC.

Tim Davie, the BBC marketing boss who is the newly crowned successor to the corporation's departing director of audio and music, Jenny Abramsky, is next - coming in at number 93 on the MediaGuardian 100.

Other significant radio players who did not quite make the cut for the MediaGuardian 100 include Radio 2 presenter Chris Evans; the controller of BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra and BBC Switch, Andy Parfitt; the programme and operations director of Virgin Radio's new owner Absolute Radio, Clive Dickens; and the BBC head of radio entertainment, Paul Schlesinger.

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